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The Court, The Constitution, And The History Of Ideas, Scott D. Gerber May 2008

The Court, The Constitution, And The History Of Ideas, Scott D. Gerber

Vanderbilt Law Review

Several of the nation's most influential constitutional law scholars have been arguing for the better part of a decade that judicial review should be sharply limited, or eliminated altogether. The list includes such prominent thinkers as Professor Mark V. Tushnet of Harvard Law School, Professor Cass R. Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School, and Dean Larry D. Kramer of Stanford Law School. In place of the doctrine made famous by Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, these leading voices of the legal academy call for "popular constitutionalism": a constitutional law that is defined outside of the …


Towards Global Convenience, Fairness, And Judicial Economy, J. S. Hill Jan 2008

Towards Global Convenience, Fairness, And Judicial Economy, J. S. Hill

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Supreme Court held in Sinochem Int'l Co. Ltd. v. Malaysia Int'l Shipping Corp., that federal district courts can dismiss cases under forum non conveniens before determining jurisdiction. The facts of Sinochem did not allow the Court to determine whether a court may conditionally dismiss under "forum non conveniens" before determining jurisdiction, but this Note argues that district courts should be able to do so. The issue of conditional dismissal before jurisdiction arises only where subject matter or personal jurisdiction is difficult to determine, "forum non conveniens" factors weigh heavily in favor of dismissal, and the district court intends to …


Chief Judges: The Limits Of Attitudinal Theory And Possible Paradox Of Managerial Judging, Tracey E. George, Albert H. Yoon Jan 2008

Chief Judges: The Limits Of Attitudinal Theory And Possible Paradox Of Managerial Judging, Tracey E. George, Albert H. Yoon

Vanderbilt Law Review

Grutter v. Bollinger is familiar to American lawyers, academics, and law students as the Supreme Court decision allowing the consideration of race in law school admissions.1 Grutter's procedural history is nearly as noteworthy as its substantive holding. The University of Michigan Law School, after losing in federal district court, appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Three Democratic appointees were assigned to the panel: Judges Karen Nelson Moore and Martha Craig Daughtrey, who had heard an earlier interlocutory appeal, and Chief Judge Boyce Martin, who replaced the designated district judge from the earlier panel. The white …